Flying Banners, Etc. [A Tale.].
Title | Flying Banners, Etc. [A Tale.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Bishop SHERMAN |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1942 |
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Flying Banners
Title | Flying Banners PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Bishop Sherman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1942 |
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The Last Lecture
Title | The Last Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Pausch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cancer |
ISBN | 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
The Feather Thief
Title | The Feather Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Wallace Johnson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1101981628 |
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
The Juvenile Journal; Or, Tales of Truth, Etc
Title | The Juvenile Journal; Or, Tales of Truth, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Mary COCKLE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1807 |
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Tales of Sonoma County
Title | Tales of Sonoma County PDF eBook |
Author | William Chapman Shipley |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738507675 |
By the Dawn's Early Light
Title | By the Dawn's Early Light PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Kroll |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2000-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780590450553 |
Chronicles the story of how Francis Scott Key came to write the United States' national anthem.